[新聞] Ned still Ned
Kansas City Royals manager Ned Yost shook off the label as a manager known to
mess up at the wrong time after guiding his club to Game 7 of the World
Series, but it's a new season so we can go back to second guessing the
Royals' skipper. Yost has a curious Opening Day lineup, electing to bat Alex
Gordon -- the team's best hitter in 2014 -- sixth.
How many managers make out a lineup with their best hitter sixth?
Gordon led the team in both on-base percentage and slugging percentage last
season, hitting .266/.351/.432. OK, those aren't George Brett in-his-prime
numbers, but they were the best on the team. His 19 home runs also led the
team. The numbers say your best hitter should actually bat second, although
most managers hit their best guy third or fourth.
Instead, Yost is hitting Mike Moustakas -- he of the .212 average and .271
OBP in 2014 -- second. Both he and Gordon bat left-handed so that wasn't a
factor with right-hander Jeff Samardzija starting for the White Sox.
No, it appears to be a spring training thing. Gordon had a bad spring,
hitting .200 but with worrisome totals of 10 strikeouts and no walks. Spring
training stats are a small sample size so don't mean a whole lot, but
strikeout and walk rates are the one thing that stabilize fairly quickly.
Keep in mind that Yost also moved Gordon down in the lineup in the postseason
after the left fielder hit .190 in September with 29 strikeouts in 102 plate
appearances (albeit with 16 walks). After that late slump and a slow spring,
it appears Yost has lost a little faith in Gordon.
The defending AL champs are leading with Alcides Escobar, followed by
Moustakas. That's some likely OBP issues at the top of the order.
把Gordon放六棒我也很不解@@
作者覺得Yost是因為春訓表現不佳而對Gordon失去信心。
然後前兩棒的上壘率又那麼低....非常奇怪的排法。
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